So excited to be joining forces with Common Holly and her new album When I say to you Black Lightning, out 11 October through Solitaire Recordings. Check out the video for first single ‘Central Booking‘ below. Holding fast to the emotional honesty of Playing House (2017), Common Holly’s second record, When I say to you Black Lightning is a look outward; an exploration of the ways in which we all experience pain, fear and self-delusion, and how we...
Announcing the return of iconic songwriting supergroup Dyson Stringer Cloher – Mia Dyson, Liz Stringer, and Jen Cloher. ‘Falling Clouds‘ is out now. A return as monumental as this requires a video to match. Read Cloher’s comments on it below. “Drag has always been a fun way to explore gender through performance. ‘Falling Clouds’ examines how the rules and privileges of gender have shaped the careers of women and non...
The follow up to Dada, Dudu, is out today. How good good. It’s out now via Captured Tracks. Listen here. B Boys (Andrew Kerr, Brendon Avalos, Britton Walker) find inspiration in the chaos that surrounds them: the aggressive attitude and sonic lawlessness of the city they live, work, and breathe in every day. Their raw, yet meticulous style is characterised by rhythmic complexity, commanding riffs, and introspective lyrics that are as playful...
DIIV are back. Their new album Deceiver it out 4 October through Captured Tracks. Preorder and stream the first single ‘Skin Game‘ here. The band—Zachary Cole Smith [lead vocals, guitar], Andrew Bailey [guitar], Colin Caulfield [bass], and Ben Newman [drums]— return for the first time since 2014’s critically acclaimed Is The Is Are. The track gallops forth on a clean guitar riff before unfolding into a hypnotic hook offset by...
‘Kill Some‘ is the third single released by talented young artist HAWA, complete with its own video. HAWA explained that ‘Kill Some‘ “is a love song about a toxic relationship inspired by a true story.” The song follows that journey from its hopeful beginning to the end of the “fairytale,” presenting the “challenges of being in love with a gorgeous woman who you know could never truly be yours.” Check...
Carla Geneve has announced a national tour this August performing shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle! She’s taking her debut self-titled EP on the road, which was released in June via Dot Dash Recordings/Remote Control Records. Carla’s also been announced on a national tour from September-October with HOLY HOLY. To celebrate the announcement, Carla has shared a video for ‘Things Change’. The video was filmed on her recent debut tour of...
Lina Tullgren has released a new single off their forthcoming album, ‘Bad At Parties‘ a second taste of Free Cell, out 23 August. It’s an elegant and introspective ballad featuring gorgeously arrange strings – communicating a moment of quiet social paralysis. The new video premiered via Tiny Mix Tapes earlier and was directed by Lina’s close friend and musical collaborator Ty Ueda, who explains: “[it’s] an adaptation of an old studio practice of mine that...
Check out the brand new video from jade imagine – ‘The News‘ – the third track from their forthcoming debut album Basic Love, out 2 August through Milk! Records. It’s jade imagine at their most direct and succinct, ruminating on the troubles of a 24-hour news cycle. “I really can’t keep up with the news. No word of a lie. A story about accepting the fact that the wheels will...
Sleater-Kinney release the title track from their forthcoming album, The Center Won’t Hold. It is the tenth album from iconic trio. Brownstein explains, “We’re always mixing the personal and the political but on this record, despite obviously thinking so much about politics, we were really thinking about the person — ourselves or versions of ourselves or iterations of depression or loneliness — in the middle of the chaos.” Watch the lyric video...
It’s a total pleasure to announce the signing of Chastity Belt to Milk! Records for Australia and New Zealand! Their self titled third record is out 20 September. Chastity Belt’s energy is like a circuit, circling around the silly and the sincere. Tongue-in-cheek shit-shooting and existential rumination feed into each other infinitely. Theirs is a long-term relationship, and that loop sustains them. That’s a creative thesis in and of itself, but...
Ahead of his North American tour opening for Tame Impala, Velvet Negroni, 4AD’s latest venture in experimental RnB, shares his new song ‘WINE GREEN’, whose visual features his own drawings. The single is the second to be taken from his forthcoming debut album NEON BROWN out 30 August. Velvet Negroni, the creative alter-ego of Minneapolis’ Jeremy Nutzman, creates raw, experimental R&B centered on the level of intimacy his voice evokes hybridizing classic soul and West Indian elements.‘WINE GREEN’ is preceded by a...
pang [ pang] noun a sudden feeling of mental or emotional distress or longing: a pang of remorse; a pang of regret a sudden, brief, sharp pain or physical sensation; spasm: hunger pangs. Pang! the new album from Gruff Rhys, out Friday 13 September via Rough Trade. It’s a pop album with a couple of verses of Zulu and an English title, which developed unexpectedly over about 18 months. It’s...
New Zealand reggae-soul legends The Black Seeds have dropped REFABRICATED: Fabric Remixes & Rarities – a selection of unreleased tracks, remixes and versions from their 2017 Fabric album. The 6-track companion EP features 3 new, unreleased tracks from the Fabric sessions, as well as album re-workings from the likes of DJ Mu (Fat Freddy’s Drop), MC Gardna (UK), Israel Starr (NZ) & Deep Fried Dub (AUS). Firmly rooted in the bass-heavy Jamaican sounds that inspired the birth of the band, over the past...
Jess Ribeiro’s third album LOVE HATE is out now – a masterclass in songwriting and melody. Jess pivots to the visual realm with her directorial output for album track ‘Young Love.’ Premiering via Pilerats, watch the video below. ‘Young Love’ is a standout sleeper on her new record. It’s noticeably different from Ribeiro’s previous work – a trip-hop groove, and a more heavily processed electronic sound. The song was inspired...
Days of the Bagnold Summer began life as a 202 award-winning graphic novel by Joff Winterhart. It’s since been turned into a feature film, the directorial debut of Simon Bird (The Inbetweeners, Friday Night Dinner), and comes accompanied by an original soundtrack album by Belle and Sebastian. The album will be released 13 September via Matador Records. Watch the video for first single ‘Sister Buddha‘ – anthemic and transcendent, led...
Ontario’s Chastity announce their sophomore album and share the first single off the record. Home Made Satan is due Friday 13 September via Captured Tracks. Check out the video for new track ‘Sun Poisoning.’ Stream it here. The single is about the contradictory melancholy that often comes with the vulnerability of a new relationship, capturing the juxtaposition of feeling both joy and sadness simultaneously. The raucous visual features an adolescent...
